- (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
- (v.t.) To confound.
- (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
- (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
- (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
- (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.
Commit and Scratch
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, pull
- Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
- usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
- synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
- Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
- Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
noun
- An abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off.
- synonyms: abrasion, scrape, excoriation
- A depression scratched or carved into a surface.
- Informal terms for money.
- A competitor who has withdrawn from competition.
- A line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game.
- synonyms: start, starting line, scratch line
- Dry mash for poultry.
- synonyms: chicken feed
- A harsh noise made by scraping.
- usage: "the scrape of violin bows distracted her"
- synonyms: scrape, scraping, scratching
- Poor handwriting.
- synonyms: scribble, scrawl, cacography
- Golf) a handicap of zero strokes. (
- usage: "a golfer who plays at scratch should be able to achieve par on a course"
- An indication of damage.
verb
- Cause friction.
- usage: "my sweater scratches"
- Cut the surface of; wear away the surface of.
- synonyms: scrape, scratch up
- Scrape or rub as if to relieve itching.
- usage: "Don't scratch your insect bites"
- Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled.
- usage: "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting-the chair is ill"
- Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line.
- usage: "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"
- Gather (money or other resources) together over time.
- usage: "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living"
- Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface.
- usage: "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) In various sports, the line from which the start is made, except in the case of contestants receiving a distance handicap.
- (a.) Made, done or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards.
- (n.) A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow or incision.
- (n.) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- (v.i.) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
- (n.) A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
- (v.t.) To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin or the like.
- (v.t.) To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.
- (v.t.) To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out.
- (v.t.) To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
- (n.) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
- (n.) A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch.
- (v.i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Slang for readily available money.